New Delhi, Apr 9 (ANI): Five Indian peace corps lost their lives while escorting a United Nations convoy in a particularly volatile part of South Sudan on Tuesday.
The dead include a Lt. Colonel, a junior commissioned officer and three jawans while five were injured including an officer, according to the information received by the Foreign Office from the Indian Ambassador in South Sudan.
On hearing the happening, three U.N. helicopters were sent for casualty evacuation operations, bringing the injured to South Sudan's capital Juba, from where they were being taken to the U.N. mission hospital when reports last came in.
According to International news channels the bodies of the five martyrs will be sent to the country.
A contingent of 2,200 Army personnel from India is serving the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. While one lot is based in Malakkal, Upper Nile, on the border with Sudan and the other, to which the ill-fated troopers belonged, is located in Jonglei.
It is not clear how the convoy of 32 soldiers were attacked. Reports have still not come in so far following a meeting between Indian diplomats and U.N. officials to get further details and tie up arrangements for treatment of the injured and sending back bodies of the dead.
(ANI)
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